Emergency Essentials
A 12-month online course in emergency and critical care for vets in India. One module a month, built around the problems you see in practice.
Enrolment opens 12 October 2026. First session Thursday 12 November, 9 pm IST.
At a glance
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12 modules, one a month, November 2026 to October 2027
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4 sessions of 1½ hours per module, every Thursday at 9 pm IST
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Live, and recorded if you miss a session
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Taught by 5 instructors: 2 board-certified diplomates and 3 Indian emergency and critical care vets
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Open to vets. 50 seats per module
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A protocol card to keep for every module
How each module runs
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Approach. Differentials, triage, and the diagnostics worth doing with what you have.
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Stabilise and treat. Protocols, drugs and monitoring.
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Virtual case. Work a case live, with polls and the whiteboard.
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Rounds with the faculty panel. Your cases and your questions.
Every session comes with online material. Quizzes and assignments are graded before the final session.
Modules and dates
Each module is timed for when those cases come through the door. Blood, bleeding and jaundice fall in tick and leptospirosis season.
Triage, recognising shock, fluid resuscitation, vascular access and glucose emergencies. The foundation for every module after it.
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Triage and the primary survey: recognising shock fast
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Shock fluids, IV access and glucose emergencies
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Virtual case: the collapsed dog
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Rounds with the faculty panel: your cases and questions
Skills: Primary survey, IV catheter placement, fluid bolus calculation
Protocol card: Collapse and shock
Why they won’t eat, appetite stimulants, feeding tubes, and feeding the hospitalised patient. You’ll use it in every module after this one.
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Why they won't eat, and how much they need
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Antiemetics, appetite stimulants and feeding tubes
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Virtual case: the cat that stopped eating
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Rounds with the faculty panel: your cases and questions
Skills: RER calculation, nasogastric tube placement
Protocol card: Feeding the hospitalised patient
Localising the problem, oxygen therapy, thoracic point-of-care ultrasound, thoracocentesis, and handling the patient you mustn’t stress.
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Reading the breathing pattern: where is the problem?
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Oxygen, sedation, chest taps and heart failure
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Virtual case: the cat that can't breathe
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Rounds with the faculty panel: your cases and questions
Skills: Oxygen delivery, thoracocentesis
Protocol card: Respiratory distress
Stopping the seizure, the neuro exam that matters, raised intracranial pressure, and the causes you can treat.
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Seizure or not? The causes you can fix straight away
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Stopping the seizure, step by step
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Virtual case: status epilepticus and head trauma
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Rounds with the faculty panel: your cases and questions
Skills: Neuro exam, MGCS, anticonvulsants without IV access
Protocol card: Status epilepticus
Primary and secondary survey, AFAST and TFAST, haemorrhage control, analgesia, and talking to owners.
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Primary survey and AFAST in the trauma patient
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Bleeding, pain relief and wound care
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Virtual case: the road traffic accident
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Rounds with the faculty panel: your cases, and talking to owners
Skills: AFAST, wound lavage, bandaging
Protocol card: Trauma
Decontamination, organophosphates, rodenticides, snakebite and antivenom, and heat stroke.
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Poisons: when and how to decontaminate
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Snakebite: the 20-minute clotting test and antivenom
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Heat stroke: cooling safely, with a virtual case
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Rounds with the faculty panel: your cases and questions
Skills: Decontamination, 20WBCT, active cooling
Protocol card: Toxins, snakebite and heat stroke
GDV, pyometra, urethral obstruction and the painful abdomen: what needs surgery now and what can wait.
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The abdomen that needs surgery: how to tell
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The blocked cat and the GDV
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Virtual case: high potassium and a twisted stomach
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Rounds with the faculty panel: your cases and questions
Skills: Pain scoring, male cat urinary catheter, gastric decompression
Protocol card: Acute abdomen and blocked cat
Acute kidney injury, urine output monitoring, fluid plans, leptospirosis, and when to refer for dialysis.
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Pre-renal, renal or post-renal: reading the urine
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Fluid plans, urine output and leptospirosis
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Virtual case: the dog making little urine
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Rounds with the faculty panel: your cases and questions
Skills: Urine specific gravity, ins and outs
Protocol card: Acute kidney injury
Regenerative or not, immune-mediated haemolytic anaemia, tick-borne disease, and transfusion.
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Blood loss, destruction or not being made
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Transfusion: typing, cross-matching and giving blood safely
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Virtual case: IMHA or tick fever?
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Rounds with the faculty panel: your cases and questions
Skills: PCV/TS, blood smear, saline agglutination, blood typing
Protocol card: Anaemia and transfusion
Platelets or factors, rodenticide, ehrlichiosis, and coagulation testing you can do in practice.
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Platelets or clotting factors: tests you can do in practice
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Rat poison, tick fever and nosebleeds
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Virtual case: the dog with a nosebleed
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Rounds with the faculty panel: your cases and questions
Skills: Platelet estimate, clotting time
Protocol card: Bleeding
Pre-hepatic, hepatic or post-hepatic, leptospirosis, and acute liver failure.
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Pre-hepatic, hepatic or post-hepatic
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Supportive care, and keeping staff safe from leptospirosis
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Virtual case: the jaundiced dog
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Rounds with the faculty panel: your cases and questions
Skills: Basic liver ultrasound, PPE and isolation
Protocol card: Jaundice
Parvovirus, acute haemorrhagic diarrhoea, sepsis, fluid and electrolyte losses, and nursing these patients.
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Parvovirus, haemorrhagic diarrhoea and the septic patient
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Fluids, potassium, feeding and isolation nursing
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Virtual case: the septic parvo puppy
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Rounds with the faculty panel: your cases and questions
Skills: Parvovirus testing, barrier nursing, potassium supplementation
Protocol card: Haemorrhagic vomiting and diarrhoea
Get the full syllabus
All 48 sessions with dates and learning outcomes, the skills you’ll practise, the protocol card for each module, and the four workshops. We’ll email it to you, along with course updates.
Fees
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All 12 modules: ₹50,000. Founding-cohort price, until 9 November 2026.
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Single module: ₹6,000.
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A module that has already run: ₹5,000. Recordings and material only, without the live sessions or rounds.
Enrolment for each module closes at 11:59 pm IST on the Monday before its first session.
Certificate
You get the Emergency Essentials certificate when you complete all 12 modules: every quiz, every assignment and every session watched.
Practical workshops
4 hands-on workshops a year, 1½ days each: a full day of practical skills, then a half day of simulation and assessment. They run with a partner institution on their own schedule and are booked separately. Dates go on the Events page.
Refunds
Email us within 48 hours of a module’s second session for a full refund of that module. You don’t need to give a reason. For all 12 modules, the same applies to Module 1 and covers the full fee. Refund policy
Questions
Any vet.
Every session is recorded. Watch it any time.
No. Each module is its own course. The certificate needs all 12.
Yes. Join any upcoming module. Modules that have already run are available as recordings for ₹5,000, without the live sessions or rounds.
1½ hours a week live, plus the quiz and assignment for each module.
The 4th session of every module. Bring your own cases or questions and discuss them with the faculty panel.
Anything else? team@veccsi.org